Monday, January 10, 2005

The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism by Mahmoud Abbas

I am hopeful that the election last week of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to the presidency of the Palestinian Authority can lead to a negotiated settlement between the Palestinians and Israelis. However, anyone that thinks Abbas is simply a pragmatic technocrat as the Western media has portrayed him has not done their homework. Read more about his mixed past here. Among the claims made by Abbas in this book:

"Abu Mazen refutes the Nazi Holocaust as "The Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six million Jews were killed." Additionally, Abu Mazen writes that he believes that there were only about 890,000 Jewish victims in Nazi Germany and that these victims were actually the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot." - Chris McGreal